Major League Baseball, along with the Major League Baseball Players Association, released the MLB All-Star team roster that will be headed overseas for the Japan All-Star Series next week and no Phillies were selected.

AT THE PLATE: Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton walked ahead of Howie Kendrick's run-scoring double over left fielder Jordan Schafer's head in the fourth inning, and Hamilton scored on Schafer's throwing error. Erick Aybar hit an RBI single to right, and David...

TAMPA -- An Orioles team that had averaged nine runs per game over its past eight Grapefruit League games was shut out for the first time this spring on Thursday afternoon, falling to the New York Yankees, 6-0, at Steinbrenner Field.
The Orioles (9-5)...

As the Orioles enter the final month of the regular season, their accomplishments are starting to mount along with their win total. They currently have the second-best record in baseball and a nine-game lead in the American League East division.
And...

The Orioles tried to give Ubaldo Jimenez some work in a pressure-free situation Sunday afternoon, allowing the struggling right-hander to work the ninth inning with a seven-run lead.
But Jimenez would last just five batters after loading the bases and...

NEW YORK – Remember the New York Yankees?
That shell of a franchise that was left for dead after being swept last weekend at Camden Yards, the mega-salaried club that simply couldn't overcome injuries and old age?
Well, after beating the Orioles, 5-4, on a scorching Saturday afternoon before an announced 42,678 in the Bronx, the Yankees have risen like a phoenix and flown a half-game ahead of the Orioles and back into second place in the American League East.
“This division, there is no one...

Orioles center fielder Adam Jones says he doesn’t know what his statistics are against opposing pitchers, so when he walked to the plate in the ninth inning Sunday he didn’t realize he had just two singles and four strikeouts in 10 previous at-bats against the best closer in baseball history, Mariano Rivera.
After launching a one-out, two-run home run over the left field wall to give the Orioles an eventual 2-1 victory, stun the screaming, announced crowd of 40,218 and stop the New York...

One of the most important things about Sunday’s 2-1 win at Yankee Stadium happened after Adam Jones homered against Mariano Rivera.
Closer Jim Johnson entered the game. That part shouldn’t have been a surprise.
Even though Johnson blew his last one-run save at Yankee Stadium on Friday and even though he has blown six saves this year (twice as many as he had in 2012) and even though Tommy Hunter has pitched well as the set-up man and is more of a traditional, fireballing reliever, Orioles...

NEW YORK — Chris Nelson hit a solo home run to right-center field in the fourth inning and broke the game open with a grand slam to left field in the eighth Thursday, as the Angels avoided a four-game sweep at the hands of the New York Yankees with an 8-4 victory.
It was the first career grand slam and first multi-homer game for Nelson, who was designated for assignment by the Angels on June 10, accepted an assignment to triple-A and took over as the regular third baseman after Alberto Callaspo...

As dominating as Kevin Gausman was in his first inning of relief Tuesday night, and as well as he's pitched against the Yankees overall, the Orioles' rookie right-hander faced uncharted territory in the eighth inning against the heart of New York's batting order.
In his first career eighth-inning hold opportunity, Gausman allowed three runs — including Alfonso Soriano's go-ahead two-run homer— as the Yankees rallied for four runs and a 7-5 win over the Orioles.
With leads against fellow...

The Orioles headed into this week's four-game series at home against the New York Yankees knowing they had a chance to bury one of their closest rivals in the American League wild-card race.
They left Camden Yards for Toronto early this morning clinging to the faint belief that they are still in this race, though they are being passed by other teams as the season's end quickly approaches.
After dropping three of four to the Yankees — including Thursday's gut-punching 6-5 loss before an announced...